It seems that is his dilemma. He's feeling somehow that he's limited to 4gb,
perhaps a program states it(perl) or some such thing, but he can still make
files larger than 4gb. That might make one disconcerted, no?
--
Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-796-9023
email: austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan Scott [mailto:nathans@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 3:44 PM
> To: Todd Raeker
> Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: shell filesize limit of 4 GB
>
>
> hello Todd,
>
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 02:20:09PM -0500, Todd Raeker wrote:
> > On Thursday 01 November 2001 01:10, Nathan Scott wrote:
> > > tcsh-6.11.00-ns# dd if=/dev/zero of=big bs=1024
> seek=687194 count=1
> > > 1+0 records in
> > > 1+0 records out
> > > tcsh-6.11.00-ns# ls -lh big
> > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 671M Nov 1 16:56 big
> > > tcsh-6.11.00-ns# dd if=/dev/zero of=bigger bs=1024
> seek=6871947673 count=1
> > > 1+0 records in
> > > 1+0 records out
> > > tcsh-6.11.00-ns# ls -lh bigger
> > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 6.4T Nov 1 16:56 bigger
> > > tcsh-6.11.00-ns# dd if=/dev/zero of=sick bs=1024
> seek=6871947673699 count=1
> > > 1+0 records in
> > > 1+0 records out
> > > tcsh-6.11.00-ns# ls -lh sick
> > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 6.3P Nov 1 16:57 sick
> > > tcsh-6.11.00-ns#
> > > ...
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I started this large file limit issue and am still having
> problems.
> > Applying the patches above and numerous suggestions still
> limit me to 4 GB
> > even though tcsh I have supports large files and limit
> reports unlimited
> > filesize.
> >
> > I even tried the above dd commands and notice that ls -l
> reports the
> > correct size but df shows no change. More important an
> intended 6 GB file
> > took less than a second to create.
>
> You seem to be contradicting yourself here, or I am reading your
> mail wrong... you say you are limited to 4Gb files, then you say
> the dd commands report the correct size (clearly greater than 4Gb
> in the above cases) and that you created a 6Gb file. (?)
>
> The above dd commands are creating files with holes, so complete
> very quickly and take up very little filesystem space, but do
> demonstrate the large file support and limit enforcement. Run
> xfs_bmap on the created files and you'll see the holes.
>
> cheers.
>
> --
> Nathan
>
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